His War, flash fiction
(1) My father leaned against the front fender of the family wagon, while I did an eleven-year-old’s imitation on the opposite side. We...
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Nicole Yurcaba
Jun 30, 201812 min read
The Art of Possession
No one will ever understand what made me this way, as even I don’t understand it. One day, I was a pure maiden, sitting by the window in...
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Joseph Crossen
Jun 30, 201810 min read
Your Young Men Shall Have Visions
On the morning my father sent me away, I could smell the good wood smoke from the cook fires. The sounds of the old women sweeping and...
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AN Block
Jun 30, 201837 min read
Send Him Home
The sun had already begun sagging in earnest by the time Alan Bornstein blooped their last tennis ball, the newish one still shedding a...
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Charles Scott
Jun 30, 20189 min read
Flowers
The glass vases of table flowers had belonged to someone else, left in disarray on trays in the empty Tap Room at the New York city club...
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John Califano
May 1, 201814 min read
Sister V
Sister Maria Veronica was my seventh-grade teacher. She was tall and young, with a pretty face and wonderful, plump breasts neatly tucked...
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Anthony Parker
May 1, 201823 min read
New Star in the Sky
A lit match streaked toward Earth. For nearly two years, an alphabet soup of acronym named government agencies were aware of its...
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Rebecca L. Monroe
May 1, 201813 min read
Salvage
The end, or the beginning? Where to start? It had all been so clear in the beginning; make it, get ahead. Suck up the overtime. Work...
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Maryanne Khan
Feb 27, 201812 min read
When the Boat Comes In
She walks the empty house. Paint peels below the watermark in commas, a scaly flick of fish. She checks cupboards, counting, dividing...
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A.E. Milford
Feb 27, 20185 min read
The Flower Market
The fair was an annual occurrence. Like most things in Delaware, a member of the du Pont family had founded it. The point was to sell...
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Maryanne Khan
Feb 27, 201814 min read
Sideways
“I was quite partial to oysters,” the old lady said, eyes narrowing as she peered into the tunnel that occasionally turned itself inside...
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Maryanne Khan
Feb 27, 201811 min read
Inconvienance
She unfolded the slip of paper that had become damp and soft as rag from having been clenched in her fist, for she had not wanted to have...
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Alan O'Leary
Jan 1, 201814 min read
Bats
During graduate school, we lived in this run down post-Victorian that the previous renters, a bunch of hippies, had gotten permission...
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Liz Dolan
Jan 1, 201811 min read
Bold Strokes
During the Art League’s plein air paint out on the boardwalk, Lyn saw Michael whose portrait she had painted the previous summer walking...
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Holly Day
Jan 1, 20186 min read
Superstar
“You’re lucky I didn’t break a nail,” I said to the guy who lay on the floor at my feet. He was dead, and if he could have said anything...
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Nina Wilson
Jan 1, 201819 min read
There was nothing strange about them. Diary of a German soldier
Based on real diary entries There was nothing strange about them really. They were men. Boots. Uniforms. Things I knew very well. But...
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cindi camponotus*
Jan 1, 20184 min read
suicide mission. reported, holly point farm, virginia
*carpenter ant writing from Holly Point Farm in Belle Haven, Virginia are you trying to get me killed question mark boss, our deal was i...
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David Poyer
Nov 28, 20176 min read
"The Line" from Hunter Killer: The War with China--The Battle for the Central Pacific
From Hunter Killer: The War with China – The Battle for the Central Pacific by David Poyer. Copyright © 2017 by the author and reprinted...
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Gerry LaFemina
Oct 31, 20173 min read
"Sentimentality" Flash Fiction
“The very thought of it sets my heart aflutter.” “What?” She repeated herself. He looked at her with his eyes narrowed and his lips...
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Gerry LaFemina
Oct 31, 20172 min read
"Beginnings" Flash Fiction
There were times, Davis would admit now, and only now, now that everything and nothing was at stake, that he had been truly happy. These...
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